Sunday, March 31, 2013

Shakedown Stream™ devotes the entire month of April to the entire year of 1987. It is time to poke around and see what we can discover with the music of Grateful Dead. We have 5 weeks to explore 5 different Live Dead shows from '87, a year yet to be fully featured on Shakedown Stream. Here it comes, get ready and stream on in.

Saturday, March 23, 2013

"Just a Touch, that's all you gotta have." The second half of our doubleheader this week on Shakedown Stream™ finishes up with the Grateful Dead in London, England. We'll get treated to a serious, grown-up version of Dark Star (not for the faint of heart). This kind of Grateful Dead jamming is for deadheads who enjoy a long, hearty cup of organic dark roast, freshly ground, cradled ina properly warmed ceramic filter holder before the just-bel ow-boiling temperature water poured over it. Perfection!

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, founding members of the Dead, announced on
Friday that their band, Furthur, will do a series of eight concerts at
the theater starting on April 16.

In the early 1970s, the Capitol Theater, which at the time was a
crumbling movie house, was one of the the Dead’s favorite concert halls
because of its unusually good acoustics. The group played 18 concerts
there in 1970 and 1971

Saturday, March 9, 2013

"Scholars of Middle East politics and students of the San
Francisco–centered psychedelic-rock movement of the 1960s have for years
asked the same vexing question: Just how many degrees of separation
exist between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Grateful
Dead’s Jerry Garcia?"

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

"In a move the Sweetwater Music Hall's manager called "heartbreaking," Grateful Dead legend and Mill Valley resident Bob Weir walked off the stage at the venue Monday night in the face of unrelenting crowd chatter.

Weir, who was playing a solo acoustic set prior to a performance by his new Ratdog Quartet,
walked off angrily in the middle of a rendition of Bob Dylan’s “A Hard
Rain’s a-Gonna Fall.” The walk-off was preceded by a number of
indications that Weir was growing irritated with the chatter, and
he asked those engaged in extended conversation if he was interrupting
them (5:20 in the video above)." Read More and See Video

Sunday, March 3, 2013

"You are bringing a lot of joy to the ears of my family and me. I'm a longtime fan of the Dead and appreciate Shakedown Stream. My wife and kids love it too. Started going to shows a year after you. I'm emailing because I had never heard the great to lay me down from the New Haven show you recently streamed. I've searched for good versions of that song and they are hard to come by. I'm listening to it now as I work through the late night. I had thought Lake Placid 1983 was the best post-Jai-alai (and post Reckoning) TLMD, but New Haven rivals it. Thank you! " John and family

Saturday, March 2, 2013

Bob Weir just finished a solo acoustic tour accompanied by Jonathan Wilson. Together they played Santa Fe, Tuscon, Vegas and Ventura, CA. His new friend Jonathan Wilson is awesome - really fun to watch with Bobby. Probably because he is a new face to me, but he just has the phrasing down, especially on "Mission in the Rain". Check out Bobby Weir and Jonathan Wilson joined by their other friend on violin on a Dead classic.